3A Public Hearing 2008 0219 Supplement

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building. It is the hope of generating that vastly higher level of traffic which has motivated the unreasonable discrimination against this religious use. In truth, the traffic access to Catalina Court is superb. General Plan Inconsistency There are several General Plan policies that pertain to the introduction of an assembly use in the industrial areas that were not included in the Assembly Use Overlay District. Specifically, General Plan Policy 7.09 states the following: West San Leandro Business District. Build upon the locational strengths and transportation features of West San Leandro to support the area's continued development as a major industrial, technology, and office employment center. In accordance with the West San Leandro Plan, limit the encroachment of incompatible residential and retail uses in to the area, and promote additional development and redevelopment with manufacturing, technology, warehouse and distribution, office/flex, and similar uses. Residential and retail uses are incompatible with light industrial, because they displace the buildings with structures that cannot go back to light industrial uses. There is much experience with church use of light industrial buildings in which the flex -office use comes back in when the church use moves on. General Plan Policy 10.04 states the following: Industrial Sanctuary. Protect the City's major industrial areas from encroachment by uses that are potentially incompatible with existing viable industrial activities, or which may inhibit the ability of industry to operate effectively. 1. As described elsewhere, church uses are synergistic to light industrial areas and improve their viability. 2. There is not enough demand for church space to displace more than a tiny fraction of warehouse/flex office space in San Leandro. General Plan Policy 13.01 states the following: Decision -Making. Ensure that future land use and development decisions are in balance with the capacity of the City's transportation system. The church use generates far less peak period traffic than most permitted uses in the IP District. Each of these General Plan policies identifies the importance of a cohesive, functioning industrial district in the City of San Leandro and more particularly in the West San Leandro Business District in which the property is located. These policies also recognize the disruption that incompatible land uses could cause in the continued effectiveness of San Leandro's BZA Staff Report December 6, 2007 PLN2007-00013 Page 8 of 11